{"id":15410,"date":"2022-03-24T17:24:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15410"},"modified":"2022-03-24T17:27:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T00:27:50","slug":"2022-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=15410","title":{"rendered":"2022 March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>2022 March 24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Butterfly!&nbsp; <\/strong>Since the brief run of butterfly sightings on March 5\/6 it has been either cold, or windy, or raining, and we have received no further butterfly reports until today, when Jeff Gaskin reports &nbsp;a <strong>Mourning Cloak<\/strong> near the Goldstream Park nature house this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; And Val George reports another pug moth from his Oak Bay house today.&nbsp; Jeremy Tatum writes: It&rsquo;s probably <strong><em>Eupithecia ravocostaliata<\/em>, <\/strong>although we have difficulty distinguishing this species from the similar <em>E. nevadata.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Eupithecia-ravocostaliata-1-Qu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"476\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Eupithecia ravocostaliata <\/em>(Lep.: Geometridae)&nbsp; Val George<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 March 24 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Butterfly!&nbsp; Since the brief run of butterfly sightings on March 5\/6 it has been either cold, or windy, or raining, and we have received no further butterfly reports until today, when Jeff Gaskin reports &nbsp;a Mourning Cloak near the Goldstream Park nature house this afternoon. &nbsp;&nbsp; And Val George reports another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invertebrate-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}